A new regular ABA-type triblock copolymer has been synthesized by polycondensation of the acid chloride of carboxy-terminated butadience-acrylonitrile rubber (CTBN) with hydroxyterminated polyethylene isophthalate (PEI) oligomer. This block copolymer was characterized by elemental (nitrogen) analysis, vapor pressure osmometry, viscometry, and IR and NMR spectroscopy. Quantitative estimation of block segments has been carried out by measuring the area under peaks assigned to various protons in the NMR spectrum of the polymer. NMR spectral analysis has been found to agree well with the nitrogen analysis of the polymer. The solubility and solution viscosity behavior of the polymer has also been studied. 相似文献
Hydrogenated rapeseed oil/palm oil blend, sunflower oil and high-oleic sunflower oil, and French fries fried in these oils
were assessed for contents of sterol oxidation products. Different oxidation products of phytosterols (7α- and 7β-hydroxy-sito-and
campesterol, 7-ketosito- and 7-ketocampesterol, 5α,6α-epoxy-sito- and campesterol, 5β,6β-epoxy-sito-and campesterol, dihydroxysitosterol
and dihydroxycampesterol) were identified and quantiated by gas chromatography (GC) and GC-mass spectroscopy. Rapeseed oil/palm
oil blend contained 41 ppm total sterol oxides before frying operations. After two days of frying, this level was increased
to 60 ppm. Sunflower oil and high-oleic sunflower oil had 40 and 46 ppm sterol oxides, respectively, before frying operations.
After two days of frying operations, these levels increased to 57 and 56 ppm, respectively. In addition to campesterol and
sitosterol oxidation products, small amounts of 7α- and 7β-hydroxystigmasterol were detected in the oil samples. Total sterol
oxides in the lipids of French fries fried at 200°C in rapeseed oil/palm oil blend, sunflower oil, and high-oleic sunflower
oil were 32, 37, and 54 ppm, respectively. The levels of total oxidized sterols, calculated per g sample, ranged from 2.4
to 4.0 ppm. In addition to the content of phytosterol oxides, full scan mass spectra of several oxidation products of stigmasterol
are reported for the first time.
Part of these results were presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the AOCS, May 7–11, 1995, San Antonio, TX. 相似文献
Ionomer-silica hybrid materials were made from polyethylene-co-acrylic acid neutralized by a zinc salt (PI) and tetraethoxy silane (TEOS) via the sol-gel reaction. The effects of various experimental parameters such as solvents, H2O/Si ratio and the amount of TEOS in the ionomer solution on the hybrid structure and properties were examined. The spectroscopic results show that solvents do not affect the structure of the hybrids, but influence the thermal properties. The hybrids made using highly polar solvent exhibit better thermal stability and dynamic mechanical properties at high TEOS contents. The amount of water used for hydrolysis and subsequent condensation play a significant role in the network formation. The varying amount of TEOS in solutions gives rise to different silica content of the hybrid. Above 50 wt%, the sample becomes opaque due to silica aggregation. The high ratio of H2O/Si leads to phase separation during the reaction. Transparent hybrid materials can only be obtained when the ratio of H2O/Si is below 5. 相似文献
The acid-base equilibria of three anionic sulfonephthalein dyes, viz., bromothymol blue (BTB), thymol blue (TB), and cresol red (CR), were studied spectroscopically in aqueous media containing
the water-soluble noninonic polymers polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) in the presence of an anionic surfactant,
sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). A partition equilibrium method was used to determine the equilibrium constant of partition of
the dyes between the micellar pseudo phase and aqueous phase in the presence of PVA and PEG. The critical aggregation concentrations
(CAC) of the surfactants in buffered aqueous systems containing the neutral polymers were also determined. The CAC of the
polymer-surfactant systems were found to be lower than the critical micelle concentration of such systems in the absence of
polymer, in otherwise identical conditions. The pH-dependent association constants, Kass, of the sulfonephthalein dyes with the SDS-PVA system increased with the increase in molecular weight of the polymer. The
interactions of the dyes with the buffered aqueous SDS-PVA and SDS-PEG systems were found to be endothermic and entropy oriented.
In the polymer domain, the head group region of the micelles was more exposed at lower concentrations of the polymer, but
under excess polymer concentration they were increasingly shielded, which impaired their electrostatic interaction with the
dyes. 相似文献
The effect of carbon black concentration on the dynamic mechanical properties of bromobutyl rubber vulcanizates has been studied over a wide range of temperature (– 150 to + 250 °C), frequency (3.5 to 110 Hz) and dynamic strain amplitude (0.07 to 5%). The influence of carbon black concentration on the glass-rubber transition has also been investigated with respect to the isochronal variation in dynamic properties. The influence of carbon black concentration consists mainly of the change in the levels of the moduli values in the glassy and rubbery state. In the glassy region; the increase in stiffness with carbon black loading may be fully explained by the hydrodynamic effect of the carbon black particles embedded in the polymer continuum. With increased carbon black concentration the glass-rubber transition temperature (tan peak temperature) does not show a shift in its location but peak shoulder broadening and decrease in peak height are observed. At a particular temperature, the effect of carbon black concentration on dynamic properties of bromobutyl rubber is dependent on the combined effects of applied strain amplitude and frequency. With increase in filler concentration the thermal stability of the vulcanizate increases. 相似文献
Multimedia Tools and Applications - Indoor air pollutants e.g., Carbon dioxide (CO2), Particulate Matter(PM)2.5, PM10, Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOC), etc. have a serious impact on human... 相似文献
The present article proposes a geometry-based fuzzy relational technique for capturing gradual change in human emotion over time available from relevant face image sequences. As associated features, we make use of fuzzy membership arising out of five triangle signatures such as - (i) Fuzzy Isosceles Triangle Signature (FIS), (ii) Fuzzy Right Triangle Signature (FRS), (iii) Fuzzy Right Isosceles Triangle Signature (FIRS), (iv) Fuzzy Equilateral Triangle Signature (FES), and (v) Other Fuzzy Triangles Signature (OFS) to achieve the task of appropriate classification of facial transition from neutrality to one among the six expressions viz. anger (AN), disgust (DI), fear (FE), happiness (HA), sadness (SA) and surprise (SU). The effectiveness of the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) classifier is tested and validated through 10 fold cross-validation method on three benchmark image sequence datasets namely Extended Cohn-Kanade (CK+), M&M Initiative (MMI), and Multimedia Understanding Group (MUG). Experimental outcomes are found to have achieved accuracy to the tune of 98.47%, 93.56%, and 99.25% on CK+, MMI, and MUG respectively vindicating the effectiveness by exhibiting the superiority of our proposed technique in comparison to other state-of-the-art methods in this regard.
Galvannealed coating of high strength interstitial free (IF-HS) steel was characterised by Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy (GDOES) and colour-etching techniques. Overalloyed galvannealed coatings with considerably high amount of Γ and Γ1 phases were detected in the first set of experiments. Necessary process modifications in galvannealing furnace were made to maximise the ä phase in the galvannealed coating, which was confirmed through GDOES and colour-etching techniques. As a result, an improvement in galvannealed product quality with a better powdering resistance property during forming has been achieved. 相似文献
The immobilization of strontium over titania was carried out by the method of coprecipitation. From a preliminary study, an appreciable uptake (52.8%) of90Sr was observed over preformed titania material. A weighable amount of strontium was coprecipitated with Ti(IV) hydroxide and a maximum of 34 wt% Sr was found to be adsorbed. The leachability of the mixed materials prepared by the addition of 250 and 400 mg Sr2+, calcined at 1000 °C, by soxhlet apparatus refluxing at 97 °C and repeated seven times at intervals of 24 h, was found to be of the order of 10–9 and 10–5 g cm–2 d–1, respectively. X-ray powder diffraction analysis revealed that strontium was immobilized in the crystalline matrix of rutile, which suffered some structural changes with the formation of new phases, SrTiO3+Sr2TiO4 and SrTiO3, respectively. 相似文献
Learning Management System (LMS) is an application software that is used in automation, delivery, administration, tracking, and reporting of courses and programs in educational sector. The LMS which exploits machine learning (ML) has the ability of accessing user data and exploit it for improving the learning experience. The recently developed artificial intelligence (AI) and ML models helps to accomplish effective performance monitoring for LMS. Among the different processes involved in ML based LMS, feature selection and classification processes find beneficial. In this motivation, this study introduces Glowworm-based Feature Selection with Machine Learning Enabled Performance Monitoring (GSO-MFWELM) technique for LMS. The key objective of the proposed GSO-MFWELM technique is to effectually monitor the performance in LMS. The proposed GSO-MFWELM technique involves GSO-based feature selection technique to select the optimal features. Besides, Weighted Extreme Learning Machine (WELM) model is applied for classification process whereas the parameters involved in WELM model are optimally fine-tuned with the help of Mayfly Optimization (MFO) algorithm. The design of GSO and MFO techniques result in reduced computation complexity and improved classification performance. The presented GSO-MFWELM technique was validated for its performance against benchmark dataset and the results were inspected under several aspects. The simulation results established the supremacy of GSO-MFWELM technique over recent approaches with the maximum classification accuracy of 0.9589. 相似文献